The Emperor of Paris

“Fugitive. Detective. Legend.”

Early nineteenth-century Paris is where François Vidocq (Vincent Cassel), a legendary convict, lives in disguise, trying to outrun a past that still torments him. After an unfortunate event puts him in front of the police chief, he makes a bold decision, and the ruthless mastermind of the city's underworld turns against him. Jean-François Richet sets the film among Vidocq and the people he can't shake loose, the enemy circling him and the tie he can't cut.